Overview
Commercial Herbal medicinal products are increasingly consumed on a regular basis by people in the developed world. Often such products are taken concurrently with conventional medicines, frequently without the knowledge of healthcare professionals. As more evidence has become available, there has been an increasing awareness of the potential and actual problems of interactions, often dangerous, between conventional medicines and herbal medicines. This proposed new major reference brings together available data on approximately 200 of the most commonly used herbal medicines in highly structured, rigorously scientific monographs. Although our texts on herbal medicines and drug interactions include the major well-known interactions, this text is able to treat the subject in considerably more detail.Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Zina T. Saidi, Pharm.D.(Jeanes Hospital)Description: This is the first book to deal with the specific interactions of herbal medicine with drugs, laboratory tests, food, and supplements.
Purpose: This purpose is to answer major questions that healthcare professionals have about the interaction of herbals and other drugs. The book meets and exceeds the objectives.
Audience: Healthcare professionals are the intended audience. The editors and authors are all experienced healthcare professionals with publications in this area.
Features: The book covers more than 200 herbals, with name, the kind of herb it is and what it's used for, and its interactions with drugs, food, and labs in great detail. It presents the clinical and experimental evidence, mechanism, importance, and management of the interaction. The best aspect of the book is the clinical and experimental evidence. The only shortcoming is the lack of tables. The book could have used tables listing the narrow therapeutic index drugs along with which herbals they interact. For example, in the index, warfarin lists at least 20 different pages to find information.
Assessment: This is a major reference on herbal medicines interactions that healthcare professionals need. It is well laid out alphabetically and includes extensive and major references. It will be especially useful for community pharmacists, where patients ask the most questions about herbals.
Book Details
Published
July 1, 2009
Publisher
Pharmaceutical Press (RPS Publishing)
Pages
423
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780853697602